[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tei,

Create a NEW Project, select the DV NTSC preset, and Capture via 1394 Firewire. Hard to go wrong, don’t know where the BlackMagic codec would come into play – unless you are set up to capture through the BlackMagic hardware then there must be an incorrect setting there.

Just capture to native DV capture, should work

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[Jeff Pulera]

Not sure about Mac, but on the PC side, Premiere has had issues accepting ProRes files with 4-channel audio, which was just fixed with the latest update for CS5.5

I run CS5 at home and the 2-channel ProRes files from the Ninja recorder work great, while 4-channel clips give me a “File not supported” error when attempting import.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Kenn,

More info please – Mac or PC? What display card? Software Versions? Footage being played? Define “artifacts” please, not much to go on so far.

Thanks

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Trevor,

Please verify that you actually transferred the audio files from the recording device to a drive on your PC BEFORE importing them into Premiere.

If so, can you play them directly from their folder? Yes? Import them to Premiere again. Do they play in Premiere this time? Have you tried deleting the rendered files as discussed earlier to force re-render?

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi David,

That is correct. Special drivers are installed as a plug-in to Premiere so that the video playback data is sent to the Intensity card (or MXO2 device) for output to your display. The pricing is very reasonable on the Intensity.

I like the Matrox MXO2 Mini because it is an external breakout box (convenient connections) and it offers 10-bit hardware up-down-cross convert on both capture and playback, plus has some Matrox RT Effects filter plugins and accelerates some Premiere effects as well.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi James,

You can run TWO displays off the computer graphics card and lay out the Premiere windows to suit your needs, then for monitoring the video, I would go with a BlackMagic Intensity Pro or Matrox MXO2 Mini device.

Either of these will drive actual video monitors (analog or LCD/LED, SD or HD)to provide a much better viewing experience than a computer preview offers.

I’ve been working this way for over 10 years – DPS Velocity, Matrox RT.X100, RT.X2, and now MXO2. Love my video monitors!

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tom,

Mac or PC? Processor? Source material? What are you exporting to – H.264? MPEG-2?

Even if using previews, AME still needs to convert your video to whatever format you are going to, it is never instant.

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi John,

I installed G-spot on my Windows 7 machine, works fine

Jeff Pulera

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Dylan,

I’m getting a new TriCaster HD demo unit in this week, at which time I can do some experimenting on your behalf, but for now I have to go from general knowledge.

Your original file is a very high-quality, editable, HD file. DVD is SD, and very highly compressed for delivery, not editing, so it is not unreasonable to be able to squeeze 30GB down to 4.7GB. I’m currently working on 2.5-hour stage shows mastered out at over 100GB, being encoded down to fit on a 4.7GB DVD-R with decent quality!

Part of the space-savings is that MPEG-2 for DVD is “Long-GOP”, meaning only a few complete frames are saved every second, with the remaining frames only recording the changes from the complete frames. This differs from your I-Frame codec you’re beginning with, where each frame is complete and therefore takes a lot more storage space.

Not being familiar with using Compressor, not sure what to tell you for the best file format to bring into it for DVD authoring. If SpeedEdit will burn a basic DVD without menus, maybe you can use an app like HandBrake to then “rip” that DVD into a file that will work in Compressor, where you can then add menus and such?

Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Dylan,

Talk to the engineer at the cable company and get the specs of what they want/need delivered. That is the first step. Most of them have MPEG-2 playout servers, and you can simply create an .mpeg file for them, which is MPEG-2 with audio included. This is not a regular DVD that would play in a DVD player, but rather just an MPEG-2 file that they can put on their server. You CAN deliver the file on DVD media, but it is just a “data disc” as that point. This is typically how it works with cable companies. And as Michael pointed out, it is normally 720×480 SD.

I haven’t worked with Speed Edit in some time, but I’m fairly sure you ought to be able to export an MPEG-2 file pretty easily for this purpose and not even involve the Mac at all.

Jeff Pulera
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